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20th Century Literature

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Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

Revised Edition

By Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess

Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu

By Edward Kamens
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Religion
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period

Black Eggs

Poems by Kurihara Sadako

By Sadako Kurihara
Translated by Richard Minear
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The poetic voice of one of Japan’s greatest 20th-century poets

The Wild Goose

By Ogai Mori & Ogai Mori
Translated by Burton Watson
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists

Tales of Times Now Past

Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection

By Marian Ury
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Fiction, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Sukeroku’s Double Identity

The Dramatic Structure of Edo Kabuki

Edited by Barbara Thornbury
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A study of traditional Edo kabuki through the play Sukeroku.

The Gourmet Club

A Sextet

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Anthony Chambers & Paul McCarthy
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Six short stories by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), capturing the breadth of his literary oeuvre

Red Roofs and Other Stories

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Paul McCarthy & Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Four short stories by master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, newly translated into English

Conquering Demons

The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature

By Jan C. Leuchtenberger
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the origins and influence of three popular anti-Kirishitan (anti-Christian) works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The Female as Subject

Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan

Edited by P.F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, G. Rowley, and Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century

Takebe Ayatari

A Bunjin Bohemian in Early Modern Japan

By Lawrence Marceau
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A multi-faceted look at the life and milieu of a mid-eighteenth-century aesthete

Confluences

Postwar Japan and France

Edited by Doug Slaymaker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the relationship between Japan and France and the development of postwar national and individual identities

Transformations of Sensibility

The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature

By Hideo Kamei
Edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first English translation of a monumental literary history of Japan

Figures of Desire

Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays

By Etsuko Terasaki
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An analysis of the narrative and tropological structure of classical Japanese Noh plays

Dances with Sheep

The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki

By Matthew Strecher
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first book-length study in English of the fiction of Murakami Haruki

Shanghai

A Novel by Yokomitsu Riichi

By Riichi Yokomitsu
Translated by Dennis Washburn
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A brilliant evocation of Shanghai as a city in turmoil by one of Japan’s most influential avant-garde writers of the 1920s and ’30s

Spirits of Another Sort

The Plays of Izumi Kyoka

By M. Poulton & Cody Poulton
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first work in any language to focus on the plays of Izumi Kyoka, a major literary figure in modern Japan

The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji

By Norma Field
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Gender Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A study of the heroines and heroes in one of the world's literary masterpieces.

“Dark Pictures” and Other Stories

By Hiroshi Noma
Translated by James Raeside
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Dark and haunting stories of young men whose universal desires and anxieties are overshadowed by memories of the brutality of war

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

First Edition

By G. Rowley & Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Tanizaki in Western Languages

A Bibliography of Translations and Studies

By Adriana Boscaro
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Theater and Performance, Reference

An important research tool for those interested in one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

When We Say “Hiroshima”

Selected Poems

By Sadako Kurihara
Translated by Richard Minear
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Compelling poetry that constitutes a major legacy of the nuclear age

A Tanizaki Feast

The International Symposium in Venice

Edited by Adriana Boscaro, Anthony Hood Chambers, and Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Proceedings of a landmark international symposium bringing together scholars of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

The Shade of Blossoms

By Shohei Ooka
Translated by Dennis Washburn
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first English translation of a powerful Japanese novel set in the Ginza bar scene of the 1950s

Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly

Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry

By Steve Rabson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Translations and readings of some of the most important modern Japanese poems written for and against war

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